Kill fore being killed: an experimental approach supports the predator-removal hypothesis as a determinant of intraguild predation in top predators

Intraguild predation (IGP) has been explained in terms of competitor-removal, food-stress and predator removal hypotheses. Only the first two hypotheses have been fairly well studied. To test the predator-removal hypothesis as a force determining IGP in avian predators, we performed a field experime...

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Main Author: Rabaça, J.E. (author)
Other Authors: Lourenço, Rui (author), Penteriani, Vincenzo (author), Delgado, Maria del Mar (author), Marchi-Bartolozzi, Michela (author)
Format: article
Language:por
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10174/4213
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/4213